[okie01]

"Baghdad for now appears to be drawing a line short of conducting terrorist attacks with conventional or CBW (chemical and biological weapons) against the United States," the CIA said.

"For now". But what about last year...?

Tenet has also denied the Prague meeting. And, reportedly, the CIA hasn't found the time nor the resources to interrogate the al-Qaeda prisoners being held in Kurdistan.

The Company isn't being very helpful, are they?

[The Great Satan]

In response to a U.S. attack, the likelihood that Saddam would respond with chemical or biological weapons was "pretty high," the intelligence witness said.

Indeed. If you remember, Saddam put us all on notice of that, right after he demolished the World Trade Center:

[The Great Satan]

The Company isn't being very helpful, are they?

Could it be that they have just as much to hide as the FBI?

[piasa]

From what I understand, all Tenet said was that they had no hard independent proof of a meeting. It's not as if the US can take Czechoslavakia's word for it without finding some evidence to confirm it independently. The Czechs are not above misinformation, either- they are, after all, the same folks who were training so-called 'antiwar' people back in the Vietnam War era- people like the Weather Underground and so forth. This is what Tenet said, which is hardly a denial of Iraqi involvement:

In March 2002, CIA Director George Tenet told a Senate committee that it would be a mistake to dismiss Hussein as a possible sponsor of the (anthrax) attacks. Tenet said that although Hussein and Osama bin Laden had clear religious and ideological differences, they shared "mutual antipathy" to the United States and Saudi Arabia. "Tactical cooperation between them is possible," he said. - "White House Backs Report of Link Between Iraq, September 11 Suspect" , Kansas City Star

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

Tenet has also denied the Prague meeting.

Because the proof doesn't exist. Don't you think that if that bogus story were verifiable the administration would be howling it every day? They don't. The "Prague Meeting" has been discredited for good reason.

Much like the Castro chemical weapons assertion.

Earlier this year the admisistration claimed that Castro was producing chemical WMD's. Jimmy Carter....JIMMY CARTER FOR GOD'S SAKES!! went down to Cuba and refuted the claim on it's face.

The administration never countered Carter's claim and the whole story disappeared. JIMMY CARTER. That puss, Jimmy Carter.

The silence was deafening.

Point being; there is no need to make sh!t up if the proof is evident.

LanaTurnerOverdrive signed up on 2002-07-02